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TIL in the 1600s, slavers from what is now Algeria and Morocco raided a village in Ireland, selling dozens into a life of slavery in Africa. The raid has been immortalized in the names of pubs like the Algiers Inn.

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DOwD TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger used to participate in orgies with other bodybuilders in the 70’s as “having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training .. afterward you go back to the serious stuff.” He was antihomophobic, claiming that gays and bodybuilders faced stereotyping.
4mKN TIL that at the beginning of the song Roxane by The Police, during the intro, you can hear a strange piano chord, then Sting laughing. In fact, during the voice recording, Sting accidently sat on the piano just behind him. They decided to keep this on the final mix.
lZlB TIL that there was almost another sequel after Batman and Robin, titled Batman Triumphant that saw Scarecrow as the main villain and the Joker as a hallucination in Batman’s mind caused by the fear toxin. The plot element would later be used in the Batman Arkham Knight video game
oZ4E TIL Anyone in the US Military system can send classified evidence of wrongdoing to their congressional representative if reporting it up their chain of command fails to produce results
xVm11 TIL that Atilla the Hun died of a nosebleed. On his wedding night, he drank heavily and passed out in his bed. He then had a severe nosebleed and choked to death on his own blood.